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  • The whole world one day will be made Jamahiriya [a word Kaddafi uses interchangeably with Libya that translates roughly as "gathering of the masses ''].

    'Now We Understand Each Other' 2007

  • The image of another strongman on the run in his own country was a strong one for Kaddafi.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • They were escorted to a line of black BMWs and whisked out of the airport, past billboards proclaiming the greatness of Kaddafi, and on to the Corintha Bab Africa Hotel.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • If Kaddafi refused to abandon the program, negotiations would end and there would be consequences for him and his country.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • If Kaddafi could not be persuaded to give up his plans, Libya would have received much of the material and technology to build an atomic bomb while the CIA stood by and watched.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • And even now, senior officers from the two intelligence services were negotiating secretly with Libyan officials to persuade Kaddafi to give up his nuclear ambitions.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • But even when Kaddafi began slaughtering his people, it was the British and the French, rather than our president, who led the assault against the dictator and Obama has done almost nothing to stop Assad from slaughtering the citizens of Syria.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Why I Want to Be the Values-Voice in Congress Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012

  • Kaddafi would face a stark choice: He could either give up his nuclear ambitions as a first step toward rejoining the international community or he could refuse to do so and find himself to be an even greater outcast and possibly the next target of a preemptive strike by the Bush administration.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • The war against Kaddafi was one that touched me personally.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Why I Want to Be the Values-Voice in Congress Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012

  • But Kaddafi was a shrewd man whose survival over the years had depended on accurately reading the intentions of the United States and other adversaries.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

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